Sir

I am much obliged for your letter of 29^th last.—² As I had spent two months in correcting the 5^th Edition of my Origin I was very much annoyed that the labour sh^d not have been taken advantage of in the new French Edition.— And I must take the liberty of saying that I still think that you or Mme Royer ought to have written to me before bringing out a new Edition as has been the habit of all other Publishers:—³

But I am sorry that I wrote while I still felt rather angry & offer to you my apologies, which I hope that you will accept.—⁴ Your offer to print some appended pages is very obliging, but though I have made more additions, some of extended length I do not think that it w^d be worthwhile to you any more on this, for I have taken struck out other discussions of similar length; the correction which I care most about, are mere [1 word illeg], depending on how far the evidence has come [or] demands on other factors

[Yours very sincerely]